How will you go out? Kaise?

I went to a museum in geneva. You can call it swiss planning or simply pessimism, our museum had more emergency exits then normal one. Much more!!! So much so that we had to spend a long time finding a way out from 5th floor. Then we asked for help.

With our tooti phooti french, we asked one french gentleman. But we committed the mistake of pointing towards one of the emergency exit and then uncle ji explained for good 10 minutes that the exit is for emergency only and hence should be used only in case of fire. What happens next was amusing.

My friend replied that we understand that these doors should be used only in case of fire. Unfortunately there is no fire right now but still we need to go out. so please tell us how to go out normally? How do people get out from here without emergency?

I remembered the time when Archana madam used to ask me to go out of class after not doing those sanskrit homeworks. Uncle had the same expression while pointing towards a direction. And this time also, i was so happy to go out :)

Making of a release...

Decided finally that I will be relieved of present engagement and will return to India after next release of project. Good for me and my future plan of settling down. However, I just thought that I would be away from the chaos, which has occupied past 5 months of my life. Its called CiS and I will miss it in a way.

Jotting down some terms that were central part of my work during past few months. Loved them, hated them, lived through them. And it will be interesting to read this after few years. :)

Business requirement document, System requirement specifications, Versions 1.0,2.0,2.1,3.0,6.0, Change requests...........
Smoke testing, System testing, System acceptance testing, user acceptance testing, production acceptance testing......
Business scenarios, systems test cases, business test cases....
Sandbox server, QA1, QA2, QA5, Pre prod, Production server, Migration, release notes, deployment....
Input files, Output files, xml files, pdf invoices, ADM/ACM, DCO/DCR, Payment file, Reconciliation file.....
Airline, Agent, Cargo, settlement, Intercompany, Monitoring......
Release 1, 2.1, 2.2, user manual.......
Development, tech-ops, Maintenance, Training, Madrid Hub, offshore, development team, testing team, business....
Bugs, Issue, RADAR......
Montréal, Geneva, Madrid, Bangalore.....
Financial reporting Unit, YMQ Section, Local Section.....
Country, product, Article....
VAT, Reverse charge mechanism, 9(2)e, 0%, Local VAT registration number......
GL code, Topman, Chart of account.........
Database, Code, IDS schema.....Davos, St Moritz, Locarno (Meeting Rooms).... :)

Customized Ringtones

I called up a friend in India and listened to the ring tone "barso re megha megha. " for some time. Now I don't think that there is any such thing like personalized ring tone in Europe. Even if there is a concept, It is unlikely if this is commanly used. So, I wonder how a European will react if they happen to call someone with such zingtak ring tones. "Lets call that indian guy whose wife sing songs before he finally snatches the phone and starts talking. But she sings well uh....”

And If this actually happens, One may want to change the ring tone to Gabbar singh's..."sooar ke bacchhon" :))))))